[Closed] Un-capping a chimney

Probably not too much - flue liners and a suitable caps.

Guess? £500 - £800 if you can find someone to do it from a ladder and not scaffolding.

Lots of variables though.

Not just the uncapping but checking suitable location, room for flue liner and for a stove, so new flue liners, pots, etc and maybe CCTV required to make sure flue runs clear all the way up. Maybe the flues have been capped internally?
Flue liners about £1500 as need HETAS sign off or LA BC sign off, plus stove, surround, hearth etc so allow a £ worth getting someone local to look and give an indication.

There may be a good reason that its capped! 😀

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So many variables.

Usual way to cap is a mushroom on top, and close off the fireplace any old how, hopefully leaving an air brick/vent. It might be more'permanent'. Doubt it if the breast/stack is obvious though.

As for stove.... You may want a liner, or not, with insulation, or not, it may be easy to fit or....

Having just bought a stove I can confidently say flexible liner is up to ~£35/m for the best stuff (904/904 grade stainless, for wood and smoke less coal). Add for top cowl, register plate, vitreous enamel stove pipe, pipe to flue adapter, co alarm, flue certified plate thing and you are at about £400 to £500 (depending on flue height) for bits. If diy is your intention there aren't many tools/skills needed but working on a roof is often dangerous and hetas fitters know the tricks. Diy then needs building control 'tax'.

Having repointed my stack recently I know what I'm in for..... I hope.

After all that advice you best next course of action would be to call out a chimney sweep and ask him to have a good look at the setup. If what he says is favourable, ask him to bring his appointments book, sit him down and hand him a coffee and £50 as an advance fee and a bribe to bring your appointment forward to some time this year; they are all pretty busy thanks to the vogue for woodburners.

Thanks for the advice.

The chimney breast spans three floors. We want to use the two lower floors with stoves and not use the fireplace in the bedroom and keep it sealed.

After finally getting into the house, I've just had a quote for just one stove to be installed downstairs in our cellar room.

Does that look reasonable? We planned on removing the gas fire in the living room but I don't think we can afford it now. Never released how expensive installation was.

The man cave £1140

This can be broken down thus:

liner x 14M £465
PHC kit £105
testing, commissioning (extra testing needed due to length)
& labour £300
reducer plate and
closure plate angles £30
consumables £10
Closure Plate £95
CO alarm £15
Stove pipe £35
certification to HETAS FREE
Chimney pot £85
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total £1140.00

That looks very reasonable to me. How many days of work do they reckon?

Don't forget to budget for a log store in a breezy place where your wood can season. Get it sorted and fill it now for next Autumn. There are quite often posts on here asking to see pictures of people's log stores, if you want ideas.

We initially wanted two stoves putting in - another one on the floor above. But he wanted another £1000 for that too on top of the cost of another stove. We decided it would cost too much. In his original quote for installing both stoves he reckoned 2-4 days.

I'll search the forums for log store ideas.

Cheers!

I got a quote for putting a stove in my place and it was £6k !

NZCol - wow! Why so much?

[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/outdoor-log-store-for-seasoning-logs ]The only thread I can see with log stores[/url]

So, show me your log stores 🙂

1840 house, up through lounge ceiling, through upstairs room and then roof into loft space, tee into existing chimney, liner etc, make good plus some flash arse burner. I mean it will be nice but I'm not sure it will be that nice !

That sounds a good price OP.
Is the liner 316 grade? If so that's only meant for burning wood not coal etc.
Also is micafil insulation or similar included?